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From Ancestry.com - John Edward Kelley was born in Portage City, Wisconsin March 23, 1853. He went to South Dakota in 1878 to homestead land and during that time lived with his sister Annie Pardy. While living with them a epidemic of diphtheria swept the country and the Pardys lost three children. While living there they had a lot of trouble with the mail getting mixed up with another Kelly family so John added a "e" to the name thus becoming Kelley. He married Janette Allen and they had 4 Daughters (Marie, Zeta, Cora & Gertrude). They were later divorced and he married Maude Bodine. They had 10 children (Howard Bodine, John, Harland Russel, Marion Francis, Virginia Lucille, Florence May, Eileen Helen, Milton Raymond, Clayton George, Genevieve Mary). In 1893 he was elected to a term in the State Legislature at Pierre. When he returned home he leased his farm and moved to Flandreau where he built a beautiful new house. In 1897 he was elected to a term in the United States Legislature. The family moved with him to Washington D.C. while he served his term. In 1899 they returned to Flandreau where he started the Flandreau Herald, which he later sold to Mr. Sanders. In 1920 they moved to Minneapolis Minnesota. They owned three apartment buildings until the depression, they then sold two and kept the largest one. John died August 8, 1941 in Minneapolis MN.http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=*v31t0086&id=I009